I can’t help but wonder if there’s something fundamentally wrong with me. After all, what kind of a person doesn’t like the tales of Narnia? I’ve heard of The Chronicles of Narnia all my life, but confess to never having read any of the stories. Even when the first Narnia movie came out, I didn’t go to see it, but it was more about other plans getting in the way than about me not wanting to see it.
In fact, when the first Narnia movie came out on tv the other night, I made a point of trying watch it in preparation of seeing the second Narnia movie. I laid my lack of attention to the movie off on the fact that I never get to watch anything completely uninterrupted at home. Too many other pressing needs always interfere, and so I usually only get to watch in fits and spurts.
Now I know better.
My friend’s pick for our Sunday matinee viewing was The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The only positive thing I can find to say about it is that the scenery was breathtakingly beautiful, and I mean that sincerely. If you’re waiting for me to say something else good about it, all I can say is “don’t hold your breath.”
Nearing the end of the two hour and twenty-four minute movie, I came to the sad and shocking realization that I truly disliked the movie. Actively disliked it. That’s saying a lot coming from me. Even with movies that bore me, I’m usually able to find a scene, or a character, that I can enjoy in some small part.
Not this movie.
I genuinely didn’t like it and couldn’t have cared less if they had hacked each other into teeny tiny pieces in the final battle scene. Again, I must say I’m worried about me. It simply couldn’t have been that bad, which leads me to believe I must have some underlying, subconscious bone to pick with the movie, and I have simply not allowed it to come to the surface yet.
Whatever the problem, I cannot and will not recommend anyone waste their time and money on this one, although my friend seemed to enjoy it immensely. So maybe it’s just me. I’m obviously cinematically damaged in some tragic manner. As someone once said, “What a world, what a world…”
That let’s me off the hook. I was NOT looking forward to this one.
Thanks, Alice. I thought maybe I was the only one on the planet that didn’t appreciate Narnia.
I’ve read the books in my younger years and really liked them and I’ve seen other Narnia movies through the years. I haven’t seen these two, though. I don’t get to the theater much and now that I don’t have my dd at home anymore, I have a tendency to pick a film I know that both dh and I will like when it comes to getting a film from netflix.
As I watched the movie, I kept wondering if maybe I would have liked it if I’d read the book first. I kept getting lost as to why they were doing what they were doing, and the movie didn’t give me any reason to care one way or the other. Maybe someday I’ll take a stab at reading some of the stories.